Winner of 2016 two LA Music Critics Awards
Best Blues Artist
Fan Favorite
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Based out of Dana Point, CA, Papermoon Gypsys features Kenny "Big Daddy" Williams who fronts the hot Orange County band along with Maria Kessler on vocals. Since June of 2013 they have secured performances for the first Newport Beach Pop-Up Blues Festival, the Dana Point Food, Wine & Beer Craft Festival, the Real Blues Festival of Orange County, Woodystock and the main stage at the 3rd Annual New Blues Festival. Papermoon Gypsys will give you a big dose of Blues at it's core and a wild side of Rock and Roots added to create their own unique blend.
Kenny started playing at age 7 and went on to learn theory with jazz guitarist Mark Anthony. Kenny also studied a year with classical guitarist Roberto Torres. Later, before she was famous, he studied tapping with Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson) and before touring with country band, Big Sky, studied with telecaster maniac, Will Ray (Hellacastors).
During the 80′s Kenny made a name for himself on the Sunset Strip with heavy metal band, Defiant and had his song “Nightstalker” played on local radio KNAC. It was on solid rotation at hundreds of college stations around the country which put him in the encyclopedia Metellum also earned a degree in sound and video engineering. He attended at the Institute of Audio/Video Engineering.
These days he has succeeded in bringing a whole music scene to beach town Dana Point, with the city’s first music store and school. Even though there have been imitations, Kenny has tried to bring the quality of LA musicianship to Orange county. He has sought out the best of the best musicians and teachers to bring a quality of education that can’t be surpassed.
Kenny currently is the leader of the Papermoon Gypsys, in which he plays guitar. The band has been taking the southern California area by storm.
Albert Margolis-keyboards
Albert started playing music at age 5. By age nine he was writing songs on both guitar and piano, and quickly formed his first of many bands the “Roaring Lions”. Albert continued to write and perform his music and eventually earned a Bachelor of Science in Music Theory and Composition and an MBA. He’s worked with artists such as Peter Gabriel, Ivan Neville (Rolling Stones/Neville Bros.), Daniel Lanios (U2, etc), Cyril Neville (Neville Bros), Randy Bachman (BTO/Guess Who), Leo Nocentelli & Zigaboo Modeleste (The Meters), Bernie Worrell (Parliament Funkadelic), George Duke (Frank Zappa), Johnny Vatos & John Avila (Oingo Boingo), Doug Wimbish & Will Calhoun (Living Colour), Stanton Moore (Galactc), Richard Street (The Temptations), Oteil Burbridge (The Allman Brothers) just to name a few. Albert also can be seen sharing his rock and roll keyboard techniques on numerous instructional keyboard DVD's he's created for the House of Blues, Casio and Rock House.
